#Cyprus

Cabinet has tweaked the legislation to hire far more judges and court staff to decongest the backlog of asylum seeker applications. The courts are currently facing a backlog of 20,000 cases, ...

Presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said the investigation into the death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose body was found under a bridge in Alassa in 2005, is essentially flawed as attorney-general ...

At least 20 houses in the Famagusta district were damaged after heavy rainfall over the weekend which caused part of the historic walls to collapse in the non-government-controlled areas. Authorities on ...

Doctors and nurses at state hospitals will hold a two-hour work stoppage on Tuesday to exert pressure for having certain collective agreements renewed. Unions SEK, PEO, Deok, Pasydy, Pasyki and ...

President Nicos Anastasiades hailed the biggest achievements he said his administration managed to accomplish, including measures tackling corruption, the national health service and a strong economy. Speaking at a reception ...

There will not be a rapid increase in the epidemic curve in Cyprus due to a possible arrival of the Kraken variant, the assistant professor of pediatrics – infectious diseases at ...

The number of narcotests carried out by the police has doubled in the last year although complaints have been made about how these are carried out. Police spokesman Christos Andreou ...

While Gesy has been hailed as a hallmark of benefits for the public, experts are raising red flags over the way medication is “freely” prescribed, even over the phone without ...

ONE OF the main slogans of Ethnarch Junior, when he stood in the presidential elections five years ago, was that he would revive the middle class which he defined as ...

Keeping animals in cages is part of an “outdated” mentality, the Animal Party said on Saturday in a memorandum to the Limassol mayor demanding the closure of the local zoo. ...

Flu activity was very high across the island in the last week and continues to increase, data from the health ministry showed on Saturday. The rate of seasonal influenza was 50 ...

The appointment of a UN envoy for Cyprus could provide “critical support” for the search for a solution to the Cyprus problem, the UNSG’s special representative on the island ...

The family of a murdered national guardsman has asked the 2023 presidential candidates to give their position on revising procedures and legislation that could prevent similar crimes in the future. The ...

The producer price index in Cyprus’ construction sector increased by 11 per cent in the third quarter of 2022, compared to the corresponding quarter of 2021, reaching 129.53 units, according to a report released ...

The number of job vacancies in hotels in 2022 was almost three times the monthly average of the number of registered unemployed in the same year, according to the labour minister. “...

Financing to political parties has increased by 33 per cent since 2018, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday, throwing in his two cents on a discussion over the consolidated annual funds ...

Additional complaints regarding elder neglect by hospital staff have been brought to light by the care-home owners association on Friday including the case of woman discharged without her clothes. A ...

Police on Friday said they had searched the home of the non-commissioned officer (NCO) who said in a TikTok video that being gay was not natural. The video has since ...

Protestors are set to demonstrate outside the Limassol zoo on Saturday, calling for it to be shut down. The protest will begin at 12pm and is prompted by a series ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday said it was unacceptable that “subjective views” had been included in two UN reports by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that went “beyond objective facts”. “We ...

The Cyprus Economy and Competitiveness Council on Friday published a report outlining a number of recommendations that seek to provide both medium and long-term solutions to the ongoing issue of ...

There was a decrease of 4.9 per cent in the number of building permits issued in Cyprus between January and October 2022, according to a report released on Thursday by the Cyprus ...

There were 6,579 deaths recorded in Cyprus during 2020, while 59,533 patients were hospitalised in general hospitals across the country, statistics published on Thursday revealed. The figures from Cyprus’ statistical service centered on ...

Independent candidate Nikos Christodoulides continues to lead by a significant margin, although this lead has been reduced, ahead of next month’s presidential elections, according to an opinion poll for ...